maineyeo: Camp 5 with the fam

It's been awhile since my sister started bugging my family to go rockclimbing, and since the rect Tuesday was a Public Holiday we decided to fulfil the little wish to join Camp5. Monday itself I went to their website to check them out and realized they have courses for beginners, Basic Wall Course and Taster Course I think.

Basic Wall Course (BWC) is 4 hours long and RM100/- per person. This course teaches you the safety of rock climbing, belaying and stuff; where as Taster Course prolly you get to taste all the walls. HAHAH

So on Tuesday morning itself, I called them up, enquiring about the course and asking to reserve for me and my siblings. The BWC course will only be held if there is 4< students, maximum of 12 students. So to have 4 students, my dad had to join 3 of us kids.

Our coach of the day was Ana, from Columbia if I am not mistaken. She was hell buff guys. F I T. The course started of with her explaining every single gear for rock climbing, from the harness, to the devices and the shoes. Then after they thought us how to tie a figure of eight loop for the climber. We did a few times, and had to stay a little longer because my sister didn't exactly get the hang of it. Then after it was the time to learn how to belay another. Initially we were all belaying a 5kg sand bag, there is 5 steps to belaying (: which was honestly really fun, after some time of practising she made her compete with one another because when we are actually belaying a climber, we have to go according to the climber's speed. And guess what, I won the challenge! (: Hurhur.

Then after Ana asked if we are ready to belay one another, this is the exciting part. It was really nice, daddy belayed Charlene first, since she is the lightest. So after a few practices then Chadric had to belayed daddy. Chadric was slow but Ana was really patient and really thought him really well after several practices then it was my turn, so I belayed Charlene a few times, then she had to belay me.

Note: Charlene is 13 with the size of a 11. She is small

So, Ana addd a 15kg sandbag to add on as weight. No doubt I'm such heavier, so otw up it was okay but the lowering part was a little too fast, and I had to save myself. HAH. Other than that it was good! (:

There are words as commands for climbing

Belay On

Climbing

Climb On

Tighten

Tight

Lower Me

Lowering

After that we went to the Blouder Wall, where you can climb without a harness or a belayer. Its low but not as easy as you think. /: After that we received our certs! (: Heh which will be shown below. (: We are now official belayers for Camp5! (: Then we went to rent the harnesses, shows and a belay device. Sister got really addicted to the auto wall, where you can climb without a belayer.

After climbing mummy came and have dinner with us then we went home! :D

All in all it was a nice day, as we got to climb and spend a whole lot of time with the family! (: